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0 pointsKinrany5y ago0 comments

That quote is not really relevant: TS is as functional as JS.

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Not really in the same way, though.

I mentioned that paradigms of functional programming languages like Clojure translate well to JavaScript. They do not to typescript, because it is a statically typed language.

If you are interested in why are you dynamically typed language has benefits for functional programming, please see this talk: https://youtu.be/oytL881p-nQ

rendall5y ago

Typescript typing is fundamentally optional, so this criticism, even if true regarding statically typed languages, does not apply to Typescript.

Typing is optional both for individual variables via the `any` type, and compiler-wide, by configuring it to assume untyped variables are `any` by default.

KinranyOP5y ago

That talk is not about the benefits of dynamically typed languages over statically typed languages. Do you have a specific point in mind?

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